The voiage of the right honorable George Erie 

 of Cumberland to the Azores, &c. Written 

 by the excellent Mathematician and Enginier 

 master Edward Wright. 



He right honorable the Erie of Cumber- 

 land having at his owne charges prepared 

 his small Fleet of foure Sailes onely, 

 viz. The Victorie one of the Queenes 

 ships royall ; the Meg and Margaret 

 small ships, (one of which also he was 

 forced soone after to send home againe, 

 finding her not able to endure the Sea) and a small 

 Caravell, and having assembled together about 400 men 

 (or fewer) of gentlemen, souldiers, and saylers, embarked 

 himself and them, and set saile from the Sound of 

 Plimmouth in Devonshire, the 18 day of June 1589. 

 being accompanied with these captaines and gentlemen 

 which hereafter folow. 



Captaine Christopher Lister a man of great resolution, 

 captaine Edward Carelesse, alias Wright, who in sir 

 Francis Drakes West-Indian voyage to S. Domingo and 

 Carthagena, was captaine of the Hope. Captaine Boswell, 

 M. Mervin, M. Henry Long, M. Partridge, M. Norton, 

 M. William Mounson captaine of the Meg, and his 

 viceadmirall, now sir William Mounson, M. Pigeon 

 captaine of the Caravell. 



About 3 dayes after our departure from Plimmouth 

 we met with 3 French ships, whereof one was of 

 Newhaven, another of S. Malos, and so finding them to 

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